When working with clients, how teams communicate tells me more about the culture than anything else.
Successful teams should communicate like a team fielding in a game of cricket who work together towards the same goal giving each other support and encouragement.
By sharing information about the batters, pitch, conditions and strategy, a feilding team agree on a plan on how to bowl and position themselves.
A good facilitator seamlessly keeps the flow of conversations fluent and relevant, encouraging people to engage and have equal participation while remaining impartial and patient.
It's a role similar to a conductor orchestrating a choir.
Framer Motion makes creating a sequence of animations easy.
In this example, we will create a React component that animates a circle in the center of three boxes.
Should you build UI components and then add them to a page or build the page first then break it down into UI components is the chicken and egg of software development?
Read More →You've probably heard someone quote Norm Kerths' Prime Directive during a retrospective
Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand.
In my experience, engineering teams doing their best at that time inevitably end up having to shoehorn features as requirements change or new information becomes available.
In this post, I'll discuss why great products need strong foundations.
Read More →Having worked with many clients who struggled to maintain Javascript projects, Typescript was a no brainer when choosing what to use for the project I was leading.
In this post, I'll share what and how I managed the challenges of introducing and using Typescript.
Read More →Having used Tailwind in my personal projects, I was already a convert of the utility first approach. When I was given the opportunity to lead a new project at Cambridge University Press, Tailwind was the first tool I reached for.
In this post, I'll discuss why and how using Tailwind worked out for us.
Read More →Having experienced the pain of schema-first GraphQL projects, I wanted to use a different approach for a project I led at Cambridge University Press.
In this post, I'll describe what I used and how using code-first GraphQL worked out for us.
Read More →In this post I'll show why and how you can use scoped styles with Tailwind and Svelte.
Read More →In this post I'll show why and how you can use scoped styles with Tailwind and Next.js.
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